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it is a big lie but it is an entry way perhaps so that some of the women in the country can begin to use it to open up sports and physical exercise for women. turns out that that may have something to do with overturning the regime. you never know. >> i hope so but this is right this is tokenism. they are boeing to international pressure. like, it is a pr thing we don't want to be the only one. let's send a couple women they are not going to qualify they are not at the olympic level because there are no organized sports there is no state sponsored programs and other middle eastern countries has started they have a sport as cadmy and begun to groom their athletes so they can have an actual impact in the international sporting area. so at that is good. you have progressive countries in the region. and saudi did not want to be one upped. there are 26 countries that sent no women and we are down now to one or two if not any. >> actually i don't know if you cannot participate. i think it is a requirement and that is the reason why they had to find women. >> good. i mean, those things are
it is a big lie but it is an entry way perhaps so that some of the women in the country can begin to use it to open up sports and physical exercise for women. turns out that that may have something to do with overturning the regime. you never know. >> i hope so but this is right this is tokenism. they are boeing to international pressure. like, it is a pr thing we don't want to be the only one. let's send a couple women they are not going to qualify they are not at the olympic level...
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but i think there will be the possibility that big numbers can be reduced. >> charlie: 25,000 reasonable then as a figure to look forward to in 2014? >> it will directly depend, you see the point which i'm trying to say, the afghan army which has been built and gradually i think as we take more responsible for the security so we have to develop this force into a force which should be able to defend the nation. for that we have to receive some of the enablers which now we are relying on isep. so those part of those enablers are in the future plans. >> charlie: here's my question. when is enough enough? when has the united states and forces given the afghan government enough time and paid enough price for you to develop your own ability to maintain order in those civic institutions in your own country. that's the question. >> i think the situation will be quite different in 2014. we have committed. >> charlie: 2014 is reasonable time for the united states to say we've given them enough time needed. >> they've provided not only the time then they have to give us enablers also. >> charlie: e
but i think there will be the possibility that big numbers can be reduced. >> charlie: 25,000 reasonable then as a figure to look forward to in 2014? >> it will directly depend, you see the point which i'm trying to say, the afghan army which has been built and gradually i think as we take more responsible for the security so we have to develop this force into a force which should be able to defend the nation. for that we have to receive some of the enablers which now we are relying...
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so that is a big difference. and then also i think after all that suffering and misery which we have experienced in the 90's, we see when people see in the presence of the international forces. and also it's stopping the intervention of all those powers around us so the president is stopping the interferences on some of the neighboring countries. >> charlie: what was your relationship with the northern to alliance and massud. >> once the war as over when we liberated kabul in 1992, i became the chief of staff. after the liberation, and he was defense minister. so we had really good relation and he has been friendly and i think we really appreciated it. even when the civil war started and i didn't want to be a part of it even in my absence he has been always very complementary and when the taliban came to kabul i was never replaced. my position was left. >> charlie: would it have been different circumstances if he survived. >> it would have helped, definitely. >> charlie: what's your -- the president of afghanista
so that is a big difference. and then also i think after all that suffering and misery which we have experienced in the 90's, we see when people see in the presence of the international forces. and also it's stopping the intervention of all those powers around us so the president is stopping the interferences on some of the neighboring countries. >> charlie: what was your relationship with the northern to alliance and massud. >> once the war as over when we liberated kabul in 1992,...
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it's big ordnance. and we drop big ordnance if necessary to ensure their that our soldiers don't lose their lives. but there are circumstances on occasion where we last spring, for example, we had a great tactical victory. we killed several dozen taliban. okay, but we also killed a number of civilians. so what you have is a tactical suck sthaesz is a strategic setback. and you can't have too many of those. >> rose: because the taliban will use that as a recruiting thing? >> and the afghan people will come to say what is this all about? and, of course, president karzai i think rightly would raise those issues when they took place as well. now we're in a situation we have been some of the recent incidents that did take place during the marja offensive and some other operations. but we're in a position where the taliban has caused vastly more civilian deaths than have i.s.a.f. forces. and we're going to hang that around their neck over time, just as we were able to hang that around the neck of al qaeda in
it's big ordnance. and we drop big ordnance if necessary to ensure their that our soldiers don't lose their lives. but there are circumstances on occasion where we last spring, for example, we had a great tactical victory. we killed several dozen taliban. okay, but we also killed a number of civilians. so what you have is a tactical suck sthaesz is a strategic setback. and you can't have too many of those. >> rose: because the taliban will use that as a recruiting thing? >> and the...
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minister and convert to catholic and were married at the time you can remain married so that is not that big a change. this is an effort to reach out to people who, frankly, in africa, the african anglican church shares more with the roman catholic church than the bishop of canterbury who churches that gone off in a much more liberal direction. >> call me a cynic but i think this is something done to fill the pews of the catholic church by appealing to the more right wing aspect of the anglican community, people who were a bit more ental rant of seeing priests who are women, priests who may be gay or even marrying gay people in their churches. >> i have to interject here. the catholic church is the fastest-growing religion in the world. the catholic church in the united states is growing. the protestant denominations who are ordaining gay clergy and women are slinking. >> i suggest the opposite. i've heard in the u.s., look at all the diocese that have gone bankrupt because of the priest pedestrian -- pedofilia scandal. [simultaneous speech] >> they are going up because of the immigrant comm
minister and convert to catholic and were married at the time you can remain married so that is not that big a change. this is an effort to reach out to people who, frankly, in africa, the african anglican church shares more with the roman catholic church than the bishop of canterbury who churches that gone off in a much more liberal direction. >> call me a cynic but i think this is something done to fill the pews of the catholic church by appealing to the more right wing aspect of the...
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one of the first big major victories. in many ways across. he is a better player than he was years ago. he really does have a way to find his form in the last couple months. really thinking he could do it. he served 43 ages. his game is good. he has a new wife and coach. sort of a new man. >> thank you very much. as a reminder, the unn secretary general moon has held a talk as the start of a two-day visit to berma. this is bbc world news. presented by kcet, los angeles.
one of the first big major victories. in many ways across. he is a better player than he was years ago. he really does have a way to find his form in the last couple months. really thinking he could do it. he served 43 ages. his game is good. he has a new wife and coach. sort of a new man. >> thank you very much. as a reminder, the unn secretary general moon has held a talk as the start of a two-day visit to berma. this is bbc world news. presented by kcet, los angeles.
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this film was a big hit. >> reporter: so watching a mix of foreign and iranian entertainment doesn't raise fears in iran that other cultures will take over. >> i have learned to like american culture. this is a cultural reciprocation. it is not a colonization. >> reporter: that has been the pattern for 2,500 years. iranians take what they ke from the outside world and figure out a way to make it their own. >> translator: this is a remake of catch me if you can. with tom hanks and leo dicaprio. they even copied the cover for the dvd. >> reporter: for "worldfocus" in tehran.
this film was a big hit. >> reporter: so watching a mix of foreign and iranian entertainment doesn't raise fears in iran that other cultures will take over. >> i have learned to like american culture. this is a cultural reciprocation. it is not a colonization. >> reporter: that has been the pattern for 2,500 years. iranians take what they ke from the outside world and figure out a way to make it their own. >> translator: this is a remake of catch me if you can. with tom...
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some legal experts say this decision is a major victory not just for wal-mart but other big u.s. companies facing class-action claims from their female workers. >> it's going to make it far harder for women, far harder for workers to be able to join together as a single class, particularly in trying to challenge large companies. because the real message the supreme court sent this week was that if you're a company that's incredibly big, you can really be too big to be challenged in a single form for discrimination. >> representative norton as former head of the eeoc is this a setback for women? >> oh, karen. this case is a setback, for people of color it is a setback for ordinary americans, for whom the law and its legal remedies have no meaning. without class action. >> i'm go to have to disagree say i think this is in the a step back but step forward and reigning in out of control judiciary and deal system that ultimately will benefit men and women. >> this is definitely a setback for women who are regularly discriminated against in the workplace and also discriminated against
some legal experts say this decision is a major victory not just for wal-mart but other big u.s. companies facing class-action claims from their female workers. >> it's going to make it far harder for women, far harder for workers to be able to join together as a single class, particularly in trying to challenge large companies. because the real message the supreme court sent this week was that if you're a company that's incredibly big, you can really be too big to be challenged in a...
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really big tiles. why are are we going with something so big? well, the homeowner wanted a large piece of tile to keep from looking busy. all right, so, small would have been a lot busier? yes. looks like you've got about half down and half to go? let's go. all right. so here's what we did, kevin. i took a center line, drew a line, and we went left to right, all whole pieces. now i have to start cutting. so while i'm spreading thinset, my son mark will be cutting the tiles for us. okay. we're using a half-inch trowel because the tile is so large that we need a heavier bed of thinset. we always back-butter a large piece of stone like this here to guarantee good bonding. so no spacer to get the joint, huh? no. a lot of years of experience, kevin. it's a tight one, though. the homeowner wanted a small joint versus a quarter-inch normal joint slate. okay. so our first measurement here is 15 1/2, mark.
really big tiles. why are are we going with something so big? well, the homeowner wanted a large piece of tile to keep from looking busy. all right, so, small would have been a lot busier? yes. looks like you've got about half down and half to go? let's go. all right. so here's what we did, kevin. i took a center line, drew a line, and we went left to right, all whole pieces. now i have to start cutting. so while i'm spreading thinset, my son mark will be cutting the tiles for us. okay. we're...
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. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> huntsville, a small town with a big reputation. it is famous for the jail where all the executions take place. i am on my way to hon still --huntsville. >> it is home to a former soldier overworked at the notorious prisoner. in 2001 he was stationed at fort hood when he received orders for the posting that would place him at the heart of the war on terror. >> we were told it was not a prisoner of war camp, because the fact was they were not enemy prisoners, they were just detainee's. they were taken off the battlefield of afghanistan and they were caught fighting americans and afghanistan. >> [unintelligible] they were held at guantanamo bay 40.5 years -- for 2.5 years. they say they were delivering aid and afghanistan when they were captured. they deny having anything to do with terrorism. >> we were under the idea that either we were [unintelligible] [unintelligible] the cost of fear was the only way to describe what was stolen on, the fear of being beaten. -- describe what was. they could do anything to you. >> tensions were hig
. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> huntsville, a small town with a big reputation. it is famous for the jail where all the executions take place. i am on my way to hon still --huntsville. >> it is home to a former soldier overworked at the notorious prisoner. in 2001 he was stationed at fort hood when he received orders for the posting that would place him at the heart of the war on terror. >> we were told it was not a prisoner of war camp, because the fact was they were not enemy...
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and i think that's the big problem. >> and less educated. >> much less. >> which is true by the way, all around the world. the less educated you are, the more likely you are to have lots of children because you can't do much of anything else. >> right. and you're hoping that your kids once they grow up will support you. >> support the family. >> exactly. and especially, we have done a lot of coverage if places like egypt and morocco, the kids are their parents social security and the mothers have no skills. what are they going to do, go out on the street and sell vegetables for pakistani a day. they don't have anything to fall back on. >> there is also one other thing. i think that a lot of undocumented workers who come here think if they give birth to a u.s. citizen, that that's going to give them a stronger connection to the united states. and can i think that i think factors into the mentality as to why they are having more. >> let me ask you this: what does it say about the country that educated white women, are increasingly less likely, 20% of all americans 40-plus don't have ch
and i think that's the big problem. >> and less educated. >> much less. >> which is true by the way, all around the world. the less educated you are, the more likely you are to have lots of children because you can't do much of anything else. >> right. and you're hoping that your kids once they grow up will support you. >> support the family. >> exactly. and especially, we have done a lot of coverage if places like egypt and morocco, the kids are their...
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>> by and large, the big economies did avert catastrophe. some have had gang buster years. you see china, much of asia on the heels of china coming out of the worst of this crisis in much better shape than the developed world has. japan is a whole other issue. this is now a 20-year malaise. in 1929 we were talking about the japanese ruling the world. they had just bought rockefeller center and they were at the center of the zeitgeist. they turned out to have recession for the better part of the last two decades. every time a new administration, a regime, a prime minister, they've had countless prime ministers and finance ministers comes out with a new package, it seems to fall on deaf ears because they have not undertaken the structural reform to convert their economies from export driven economies into growth. >> nations took on debt to have the stimulus packages. is the day of reckoning coming and will it be this year? >> if not this year then the year after. certainly the bill comes due for that and some countries are in better condition than others. the united states ha
>> by and large, the big economies did avert catastrophe. some have had gang buster years. you see china, much of asia on the heels of china coming out of the worst of this crisis in much better shape than the developed world has. japan is a whole other issue. this is now a 20-year malaise. in 1929 we were talking about the japanese ruling the world. they had just bought rockefeller center and they were at the center of the zeitgeist. they turned out to have recession for the better part...
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. >> a collector can long monday after up storm and found a big chunk of the funds. did he spend the next four or five years coming back every single time after a storm or a brain. as a result, he came up with this incredible fossil. >> experts think the body may still be in eclipse, buried deep in rock. it could be another 100 years before the rest of this giant makes its appearance. bbc news. >> our top story, once agai-- the prosecution at the w crimes tribunal in the hague has opened its case against the former bosnian serb leader radovan karadzic, despite his boycotting of the proceedings. he was branded the leader of an ethnic cleansing campaign. he was not in court because he says he needs more time to prepare his defense. you're watching "bbc world news." >> funding was made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu. the newman's own foundation. the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation. and union bank. >> union bank has put its financial strength to work for a wide range of companies from small businesses to major c
. >> a collector can long monday after up storm and found a big chunk of the funds. did he spend the next four or five years coming back every single time after a storm or a brain. as a result, he came up with this incredible fossil. >> experts think the body may still be in eclipse, buried deep in rock. it could be another 100 years before the rest of this giant makes its appearance. bbc news. >> our top story, once agai-- the prosecution at the w crimes tribunal in the hague...
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first up, a conversation with the best-selling author that starts tonight on the big news of today, the decision not to release photos of osama bin laden. the former star can be seen in the new film, "jumping the broom of the " we're glad you have joined us. richard clark coming out right now. >> all i know is his name is james, and he needs extra help with his reading. >> i am james. >> yes. >> to everyone making a difference -- >> thank you. >> you help us all live better. >> nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley. with every question and every answer, nationwide insurance is proud to join tavis in working to improve financial literacy ec on t,onomic empoweneen o conversation at a time. >> nationwide is on your side >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. [captioning made possible by kcet public television] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- tavis: richard clark is the former adviser for counter- terrorism under bill clinton and george w. bush. he is also the best-selling author of books like "against all enemies
first up, a conversation with the best-selling author that starts tonight on the big news of today, the decision not to release photos of osama bin laden. the former star can be seen in the new film, "jumping the broom of the " we're glad you have joined us. richard clark coming out right now. >> all i know is his name is james, and he needs extra help with his reading. >> i am james. >> yes. >> to everyone making a difference -- >> thank you. >>...
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it's as big as yale and princeton and amherst combined. and that means it has all kinds of facets that they might not be aware of right away. so i tell them to be adventurers. to go out and find emily dickinson's original manuscripts in the library. to go over to the school in public health and find out what someone's doing in terms of research on global health. to explore the variety of extracurricular activities. to go learn to row on the charles river. do things that are outside their comfort zone. that's why they came to this institution. then there's another part of being a research university which is the research part. they are in an institution which n which full tenure on the faculty requires proof that you are on the cutting edge of discovery in your field. so students ought to make themselves part of that process of discovery. don't just settle for people giving you knowledge they already have. instead, get a job as a an assistant in a laboratory. >> rose: find out where the cutting edge is. >> find where the cutting edge is and
it's as big as yale and princeton and amherst combined. and that means it has all kinds of facets that they might not be aware of right away. so i tell them to be adventurers. to go out and find emily dickinson's original manuscripts in the library. to go over to the school in public health and find out what someone's doing in terms of research on global health. to explore the variety of extracurricular activities. to go learn to row on the charles river. do things that are outside their...
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go back to blair, big belief in entrepreneurs. now it's very much about higher tax rates the rich have to pay. now that's a... there's a lot of understandable reasons for that. but i think there's element whereby in its anglo-saxon heartland what is we used to think of as liberal capitalism is more under fire than it was. >> rose: define obama as yu see him. in the con context of what you're just saying. >> i think obama on those questions is still a little bit opaque. >> rose: and a little bit pragmatic. >> but he still does odd thing. we were tough to him on the chinese tires decision where he suddenly slapped tariffs on chinese tires. one thing i get from business people, not just american c.e.o.s, is over the past four months i've detected an element of those people who previously were quite keen on obama not keen about everything. but are worried that they think he's become more left wing. >> rose: and what's the evidence of that? >> well, that's the thing. the question is more the sense that they think this. and we tried to
go back to blair, big belief in entrepreneurs. now it's very much about higher tax rates the rich have to pay. now that's a... there's a lot of understandable reasons for that. but i think there's element whereby in its anglo-saxon heartland what is we used to think of as liberal capitalism is more under fire than it was. >> rose: define obama as yu see him. in the con context of what you're just saying. >> i think obama on those questions is still a little bit opaque. >>...
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it really was a big puzzle he put together, and you need hneeded them all at once. >> side by side. >> right. >> the binge viewing aspect and the freedom from worrying about ratings or network standards allowed you to do something different this time. >> both hbo and netflix have been fantastic because they gave mitch hur witch wits and amanda, and they said we'll let you do what you do best and not get involved. >> the layoff -- it was it 2006. >> 2006. >> fox, and so you get up to now, seven years plus or minus withi
it really was a big puzzle he put together, and you need hneeded them all at once. >> side by side. >> right. >> the binge viewing aspect and the freedom from worrying about ratings or network standards allowed you to do something different this time. >> both hbo and netflix have been fantastic because they gave mitch hur witch wits and amanda, and they said we'll let you do what you do best and not get involved. >> the layoff -- it was it 2006. >> 2006....
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it was a big issue. there was the taxation issue. people look back on the '70s and '80s, especially labor rales look back and say "well, ronald reagan came into office and offered tax cuts for the rich." but if you look at the packages of tax cuts that reagan offered, they were tax cuts for everybody and they were tax cut particularly for middle and working class americans. the average federal tax burden for a median income family of four in 1979 and 1980 was 12% and 20 years later it was down to 6%. that was part of how the republican party won those voters. then you obviously had the issues that everybody remembers, national security, the soviet threat, the perception that the democratic party was weak in foreign affairs and so on. >> rose: those seems to me like an argument made against mcgovern. that was the way they characterized mcgovern democrats they're soft on crime, weak on national security, they're... >> tax-and-spend liberals. >> rose: all those old arguments exactly what you are saying, in fact, you believe about barack
it was a big issue. there was the taxation issue. people look back on the '70s and '80s, especially labor rales look back and say "well, ronald reagan came into office and offered tax cuts for the rich." but if you look at the packages of tax cuts that reagan offered, they were tax cuts for everybody and they were tax cut particularly for middle and working class americans. the average federal tax burden for a median income family of four in 1979 and 1980 was 12% and 20 years later it...
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it meant mark could do the choreography in big sections, not stopping shot for shot. then we used the actual commentary of larry merchant, roy jones, jr., cut and pasted it, jim lamply. thank you, i needed that. >> rose: you can clearly see that. >> you cannot get actors to duplicate the shock of those announcers after dumping on mickey ward for six rounds and saying what a bum he is, he should retire, he stuns them all and knocks out alfonso sanchez who was supposed to be the next de la hoya. the guy was undefeated. he never recovered mentally from that knockout. he didn't get up for ten minutes. he was in the center of the ring that from that body shot and that body shot is a very unusual way to knock somebody out. that's also something different you don't see in a movie. >> that's scum, you know that. >> i know, hey joni, how are you? >> good, how are you? >> you okay? >> yeah, yeah, i'm great. >> go easy on the wine, honey. they'll think we're micromanaging. >> i loved the story. and i felt a very intuitive connection to the story and to the character and that's a
it meant mark could do the choreography in big sections, not stopping shot for shot. then we used the actual commentary of larry merchant, roy jones, jr., cut and pasted it, jim lamply. thank you, i needed that. >> rose: you can clearly see that. >> you cannot get actors to duplicate the shock of those announcers after dumping on mickey ward for six rounds and saying what a bum he is, he should retire, he stuns them all and knocks out alfonso sanchez who was supposed to be the next...
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it looks as though there's a chance that there will be a big role for the liberal democrats. but they have been very different in foreign policy from all the torry's. one of the thing that their leaders did in these debates was to not trash the u.s., but say we're not going to be necessarily in lock step. and reexamine the relationship which has been very solid since 1956. where do you think that's going? if he has a say, it's unlike to be prime minster. but he may be the able to control the power after the election. what do you think that does for us? for troops? afghanistan? >> you sort of answered it. he has a say. but it's not going to go anywhere. >> how do you mean it's not going to go anywhere? >> in terms of british policy. >> oh, i think it's going to have a huge effect on british policy. >> do you? it >> it's the beginning of the end of british troops. and various peacekeeping missions. >> they already have had the beginning of the end. they did pull out of iraq. but where it goes from the rest of the policy, i'm not sure -- >> the british nuclear defense is obsolet
it looks as though there's a chance that there will be a big role for the liberal democrats. but they have been very different in foreign policy from all the torry's. one of the thing that their leaders did in these debates was to not trash the u.s., but say we're not going to be necessarily in lock step. and reexamine the relationship which has been very solid since 1956. where do you think that's going? if he has a say, it's unlike to be prime minster. but he may be the able to control the...
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that money has a big impact. ♪ ♪ >> he wasn't always this way. people in the surrounding villages have been living in much the same way for centuries. traditional houses were made of sticks and food was cooked over an open fire, but things changed when young people began making the journey north to work in the united states. money sent from the u.s. helped build everything from american-style houses to new roads and town homes. for many here, having a family member in the u.s. can make all the difference in the world. 45-year-old maria felix garcia lives with her four children and extended family in the nearby village of san n nicholas. when she needed surgery on her eyes she paid the doctor using money her oldest daughter earned by working in a restaurant in atlanta. >> translator: we work in the fields and all the money we get is from cornnd chilies. >> although she is blind in one eye, she employs traditional indian style to work in the market. it can take her one month to finish one shirt. her husband earns $8 a day as a farm laborer. thanks
that money has a big impact. ♪ ♪ >> he wasn't always this way. people in the surrounding villages have been living in much the same way for centuries. traditional houses were made of sticks and food was cooked over an open fire, but things changed when young people began making the journey north to work in the united states. money sent from the u.s. helped build everything from american-style houses to new roads and town homes. for many here, having a family member in the u.s. can...
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step outside, there are big problems with that. come and hear what i mean. >> reporter: the emerging government here will count for nothing if the americans leave too soon. and these afghans believe they will, and their own forces cannot possibly cope. >> can afghan police, can the afghan army keep control against taliban? >> no, not really. not control. >> reporter: so the police bosses in helmand have some job to do. the biggest opium industry on the planet and an insurgency backed by iran to the west and pakistan to the east. who would be a cop in heand. no wonder the british have brought in teams of super cops from kabul with a bit more real training to get things going. >> originally we had bad policemen, and, therefore, we needed amcop to come over. the local population hated them, and in some areas they still do. they came down and got the population on their side and won them over. >> reporter: here they're worried the taliban will murder them by night. >> that's why we have these vehicles here, they have the night sight so
step outside, there are big problems with that. come and hear what i mean. >> reporter: the emerging government here will count for nothing if the americans leave too soon. and these afghans believe they will, and their own forces cannot possibly cope. >> can afghan police, can the afghan army keep control against taliban? >> no, not really. not control. >> reporter: so the police bosses in helmand have some job to do. the biggest opium industry on the planet and an...
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the big worry the u.s. has now is the erosion of trust because so much of this administration's strategy moving forward with small groups of soldiers working closely with afghan troops, so much of that puts u.s. forces at risk and without that trust it's very easy for the taliban and others to exploit that insecurity and take advantage of this situation which they have proved time and again in the past they are extremely adept at doing. >> with regard to the short term it's very important culturally, in my judgment for the senior officer to go and show sympathy and empathy for the people. to visit with them. i have been an ambassador and these types of incidented happened then, too, where civilians were killed but it was always very effective to sit down and express one's or rein person and i believe this needs to happen and second i think what lara said about the dilemma with regard to what happens is the faster we can move protecting the officer's rights to deal with this in a fair manner as quickly as po
the big worry the u.s. has now is the erosion of trust because so much of this administration's strategy moving forward with small groups of soldiers working closely with afghan troops, so much of that puts u.s. forces at risk and without that trust it's very easy for the taliban and others to exploit that insecurity and take advantage of this situation which they have proved time and again in the past they are extremely adept at doing. >> with regard to the short term it's very important...
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on the big -- two big to fail, i do not think it is necessarily too big to fail. too connected to fail. these are not necessarily evil. if you are connected all the world, you know aig was ensuring everything and when the lights went out, the financial system was -- another conversation. tavis: how scared should we be? >> we should not be afraid. to thoseto sell people. we need to manufacture products in this country and sell all over the world. [applause] that is where policy comes in. we need a policy to keep some manufacturing and some jobs, the good jobs, the jobs we want here. if a company can do something in india that is cheaper, they will. >> teltavis: why should we be hopeful, given this proposition. why should we be hopeful we can play on a level playing field with china? >> tuolumne answer. this -- let me answer. this point has been bouncing back a few times. 00 million against on3.5 billion. i am fortunate i came from silicon valley. the productivity is eight times. i would overwhelm that if we innovate. innovation gets you the margin dollars. that is
on the big -- two big to fail, i do not think it is necessarily too big to fail. too connected to fail. these are not necessarily evil. if you are connected all the world, you know aig was ensuring everything and when the lights went out, the financial system was -- another conversation. tavis: how scared should we be? >> we should not be afraid. to thoseto sell people. we need to manufacture products in this country and sell all over the world. [applause] that is where policy comes in....
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>> we just do not know how big this recount is going to be. right across the board it means that the votes that have been announced, the three-quarters of the polling station both announced, those will be looked at again. in places where there was a very high turnout or a large number of votes, then there is a retail ordered in those polling stations -- recount ordered in those polling stations. this is the first move made by international scrutinize hours. the afghans election commission was doing the cal. -- doing the counting. insisting that these actions should be taken. >> it is extraordinary, is it not? barry rounded numbers for the number of votes actually cast at the stations. all of this being played out very publicly. it is an odd balance. >> yes, this is exactly what the international community did not want to happen. everyone knew that this would not be the cleanest election, we are in the middle of a war. but the idea was that the outcome should be credible and legitimate. those kinds of things. now if you have more than 100% turn
>> we just do not know how big this recount is going to be. right across the board it means that the votes that have been announced, the three-quarters of the polling station both announced, those will be looked at again. in places where there was a very high turnout or a large number of votes, then there is a retail ordered in those polling stations -- recount ordered in those polling stations. this is the first move made by international scrutinize hours. the afghans election commission...
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you were a big movie star for so long. you are so young, i cannot say is a long period -- say so long. how did he know the time was right? >> i do not know. i did not think in timing. or if i think in terms of the ark of the committee. tavis: what looked in television? >> -- why not look in television? >> that is a good question. i think because i had become a fan of some of the shows. -- so many shows. hbo, for a long time. the idea of working on something that this audit was exciting. maybe because it is -- something episodic was excited. maybe because it is hard finding films that are interesting. there is a mix. there are large films that steadiest tend to make. they make a few a year that are part based. -- art based. the rest are small independent films. it is hard to find great work. the idea of working on a network like hbo or amc was attractive. with that thought process, being interested in that storytelling, this show worked. tavis: let me ask you something that is unconventional, and orthodox. i am curious. we
you were a big movie star for so long. you are so young, i cannot say is a long period -- say so long. how did he know the time was right? >> i do not know. i did not think in timing. or if i think in terms of the ark of the committee. tavis: what looked in television? >> -- why not look in television? >> that is a good question. i think because i had become a fan of some of the shows. -- so many shows. hbo, for a long time. the idea of working on something that this audit was...
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that might have been big cat or something. -- and might have been dick cavet or something. i remember him saying, what the listen to? he said, i listen to classics. he said the classics are rock bottom off -- rakmanaanhoff. i said, ok, there must be something there that works for people. i don't know what it is. here is the funny thing, when i put on a cd, you don't even put on a cd anymore. what is the order? there is no order, just people bopping around. i love a bunch of song that last for one mood. you go away to one place. i don't want to be jolted. what is nice about this, they're all very different songs, but they kind of fit together. you can try for a while and you won't be thrown. each song works, and works as a whole, and i say if you listen to this album and you don't fall in love with her voice, i will drive to your house and explain why you are wrong. tavis: it is impossible, i would think, to fall in love with her voice and not appreciate your composition. they go hand in hand. >> god bless you. here is a little piece of paper, my contribution. tavis: how did
that might have been big cat or something. -- and might have been dick cavet or something. i remember him saying, what the listen to? he said, i listen to classics. he said the classics are rock bottom off -- rakmanaanhoff. i said, ok, there must be something there that works for people. i don't know what it is. here is the funny thing, when i put on a cd, you don't even put on a cd anymore. what is the order? there is no order, just people bopping around. i love a bunch of song that last for...
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i did not see it as a big deal. i know people talk so i don't care. >> you were not hurt? >> no. >> but when people are questioning who you are -- very cool things other athletes pointing to you at the starting line -- very cruel things. how do you deal with that? >> when i am on the track i am here to run. >> just hours before she was due to run in the world championships it emerged the international association at the mantid she undergo gender -- demanded she undergo gender testing. and her own country had already embarked on this without telling her. >> a few hours before you run you discover they put up gender verification tests. what are you thinking? >> i think about the future. what has happened to me [unintelligible] >> she went on to win in berlin. but with the gold medal came very public questioning about intimate details of her life. your focus is on being a good person. you must be able to have looked around and did you judge other people who had not been good to you in terms of putting you through this task without telling you? >> i don't judge people. if you
i did not see it as a big deal. i know people talk so i don't care. >> you were not hurt? >> no. >> but when people are questioning who you are -- very cool things other athletes pointing to you at the starting line -- very cruel things. how do you deal with that? >> when i am on the track i am here to run. >> just hours before she was due to run in the world championships it emerged the international association at the mantid she undergo gender -- demanded she...
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this is the one big error of this administration. it is kind of inevitable, because for years in denver the president said the greatest danger was to bring in the same players and play the same games expecting an different results. yet that is exactly what happened, expecting the economy to recover without the kind of infrastructure programs, the kind of payroll tax cuts that could have really brought about the jobs that are missing and that are really affecting all whole generation of young people ready to go to work. >> you have got tough words for this the administration over the last four years, and so have i, but you suggested you will likely vote for obama this time around, but you expressed reservations. do i read that correctly? >> i will vote for ross obama, -- barack obama because we only have two choices, and he is infinitely preferable, but my biggest concern is the fact they have not brought the same urgency that dr. king talked about and that obama talked about to the problems we are facing domestically and that we cont
this is the one big error of this administration. it is kind of inevitable, because for years in denver the president said the greatest danger was to bring in the same players and play the same games expecting an different results. yet that is exactly what happened, expecting the economy to recover without the kind of infrastructure programs, the kind of payroll tax cuts that could have really brought about the jobs that are missing and that are really affecting all whole generation of young...
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the caterpillar operators, everything from engineers to these big pieces of equipment. you have the john deere fellowship, dealing with emerging nations and continuing in this country to get more productivity out of our farm lands. three years in public service and then two years back in the home office to prove yourself up. this is a win-win for the private sector. they have lived in another part of the world, learned a language, and have learned management skills beyond their years. tavis: i want to talk about the ideas of the future but let me back up to your large question, whether or not our kids or grandkids will have better lives. i cited a report which was called the rasmussen report that found that just slightly a majority of americans think that our best days as a nation are behind us. for a lot of us, that feeling is palpable. people are concerned about the direction of this country and many believe that our best days are behind us. on a large portion whether the best is in front or behind, what did you hear in your travels? >> i hear that a lot. this is driv
the caterpillar operators, everything from engineers to these big pieces of equipment. you have the john deere fellowship, dealing with emerging nations and continuing in this country to get more productivity out of our farm lands. three years in public service and then two years back in the home office to prove yourself up. this is a win-win for the private sector. they have lived in another part of the world, learned a language, and have learned management skills beyond their years. tavis: i...
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holding my hand, looking up to me with her glasses on with just a terrible disfigured eye with this big smile and telling me what she was learning and what she wanted to do when she grew up. so you never can forget about the resilience of the human spirit. people go through the worst kind of dehumanizing treatment, and they still have hope. and i think those of us who are fortunate, there are many ways to serve, we can serve through faith communities, through nonprofit organizations, through government action, through private sector opportunities, but it's a very exciting time to be of service, to give people the chance to make the most out of their god-given potential. >> first lady, senator from new york, secretary of state, so what's next for hillary clinton? what would you say if you don't under up running for president, what do you say to the women and girls who idolize you, who see what you've done for them here in the united states and other countries, what do you say to them about why you're not going to continue to, you know, be a political leader? >> well, first, you know, i m
holding my hand, looking up to me with her glasses on with just a terrible disfigured eye with this big smile and telling me what she was learning and what she wanted to do when she grew up. so you never can forget about the resilience of the human spirit. people go through the worst kind of dehumanizing treatment, and they still have hope. and i think those of us who are fortunate, there are many ways to serve, we can serve through faith communities, through nonprofit organizations, through...
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you have got to reach out and people have found ways to reach out today, are we doing it in big cities, where you -- in poorer neighborhoods, for example. you have people that go in to the neighborhoods just looking for people who have become pregnant. you care about this issue, that's the way to go about it. they aren't looking for people who have been on drugs. they are simply looking for poor women or minority women who will get to the emergency room when the birth is about to occur. we can do this. not so many that we cannot handle this. we've got to handle it. i agree with you. >> can we afford it? >> well, here -- >> not that wholesale -- >> this is the way that the pro life movement to provide all kinds of prenatal care and opportunities for support for mothers in need. mothers who may not have expected a pregnancy, i think absolutely we can handle that. >> but do you agree that's how the pro life -- information about how the pro life movement was moving is -- differs from your -- you are steeped in, i'm just observer but i understood the pro life movement was not sending people
you have got to reach out and people have found ways to reach out today, are we doing it in big cities, where you -- in poorer neighborhoods, for example. you have people that go in to the neighborhoods just looking for people who have become pregnant. you care about this issue, that's the way to go about it. they aren't looking for people who have been on drugs. they are simply looking for poor women or minority women who will get to the emergency room when the birth is about to occur. we can...
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so george schultz said a long time ago if institutions are too big to fail, they are too big. so the burden should be on them to persuade market participants and in my view government officials that they can withstand the shock and if they can with stand the shock, the value but unwind themselves without necessitating the government to come in and write a big check, that is fantastic. if they can't pass thatç test, then i think we have got ourselves a problem. the second thing i would recommend, charlie, for those institutions and my former colleagues is that the information about these large financial firms continues to be incredibly opaque. investors in the stocks, people that own the debt of large financial firms, they don't really understand the firms themselves, they don't really understand much of the assets and liabilities and the risks. we should make that disclosure so much better so that market discipline can work. so it is not just a bunch of regulators who have to make decisions, so that markets can help us police these firms, to see the risks over the mountain or
so george schultz said a long time ago if institutions are too big to fail, they are too big. so the burden should be on them to persuade market participants and in my view government officials that they can withstand the shock and if they can with stand the shock, the value but unwind themselves without necessitating the government to come in and write a big check, that is fantastic. if they can't pass thatç test, then i think we have got ourselves a problem. the second thing i would...
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continue these one on ones and put in may -- motion various meetings for their staffs on some of the big issues. how to regulate cyberspace. we are dealing with various or global issues. accomplished with deliverables. they began a serious conversation about what the united states and china would do to manage various global and international challenges. >> i note and you know this as well that a week or so ago henry kissinger turned 90, there was a big celebration for his 90th birthday in new york city. anyone who is anybody showed up for this celebration. >> it is good i was there or i would feel very badly. tavis: whether one likes or loads henry kissinger and we could debate the bid -- the good in the ba, it does raise a question that i want to ask you about how this relationship since the era of kissinger as secretary of state has changed. secretary ofy was state in seated beside president obama at the table. >> when you go back to the time of kissinger and nixon, this relationship was born out of a shared animosity toward the soviet union. that is the one thing that china and the un
continue these one on ones and put in may -- motion various meetings for their staffs on some of the big issues. how to regulate cyberspace. we are dealing with various or global issues. accomplished with deliverables. they began a serious conversation about what the united states and china would do to manage various global and international challenges. >> i note and you know this as well that a week or so ago henry kissinger turned 90, there was a big celebration for his 90th birthday in...